Wilhelm Arcturus

We could literally legislate this out of existence.

New Star Systems for New Players Coming to EVE Online As part of Thursday’s patch 53 new systems were added to EVE Online. You can’t visit them.  They do not show up on the map.  And you might never get a chance to explore these new places…

New Star Systems for New Players Coming to EVE Online
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I really need more than 9 slots... but yes, consoles fell by the wayside when I got an Apple II.

Friday Bullet Points about the Odd and Unfortunate Another Friday and it has been a week so I am just going to roll through some news items that have come up recently that had annoyed me or otherwise grabbed a piece of my limited attention span. Hi…

Friday Bullet Points about the Odd and Unfortunate
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Maelstroms Jump on Contact Battleships are slow enough, no use waiting around

Maelstroms Jump on Contact
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My 9 Games | 私を構成する9つのゲーム あなたそのものである9本のゲームをシェアしよう。

How does one even limit the field to just nine at my age? If I did it again I'd probably get at least four different entries.

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Guild Wars Reforged – Arrival in Lion’s Arch We got together on Sunday for our next mission.  We had left off at the Gates of Kryta and information that I had seen indicated that success in that would bring us to Lion’s Arch, the big ci…

Guild Wars Reforged - Arrival in Lion's Arch
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never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Outbound Demo – Trying the Co-Op Angle The Steam Next Fest had been running along, something I have been peripherally aware of.  I have been engaged enough with other titles that I am not actively searching for that next game to play, b…

Outbound Demo - Trying the Co-Op Angle
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That last sentence feels like it has real potential to return as a panel 2 statement

Crane Warping off from an Astrahus Goods to deliver

Crane Warping off from an Astrahus
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Midnight in Azeroth By the time this posts everybody who bought the WoW Midnight expansion should have access, should be able to get into the game, and should be on their way to where ever the expansion leads. A new e…

Midnight in Azeroth
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The best money can buy!

On the job, checking for that red ring of death, and happy when he discovers another day of successful operation.

All I remember about level 1 Worlds Collide is that it was extremely difficult to do in the default Ibis.

I have been informed that these are soap bubble blowing cigarettes

Occasionally I have this dream where I find that my old BBS has been sitting in a closet, still running this last... 30 years since I shut it down.

But I also dream I still have my old 74 Plymouth now and then, so my brain is clearly living in the past.

I think about my daughter, born just after 9/11, getting to meet my great aunt, who live to be 102, and whose grandfather fought in the US Civil War. Our horizon feels so small sometimes.

I remember General Shinseki being quite the expert in his testimony and being completely ignored by the Bush II administration.

Three plastic boxes, claiming to be cigarettes (One says Marlboro, the other two are Chinese brands) each containing two plastic tubes that sort of look like classic cigarettes with filter tips, and some sort of solution you need to mix that... I don't know, simulates smoke, blows bubbles... it is a mystery.

My wife just sends me links for things to order and when the packages show up I get to say things like, "Honey, your cigarettes have arrived!"

I don't know what these even are. Read the alt text.

New Eden Banter #1 – Top Ten Reasons EVE Online is Still a Thing in 2026 Warning: The content below is a last minute stream of consciousness level of effort.  Your mileage may vary. Crazy Kinux is trying to revive the old EVE Online Blog Banter thing under the flag of N…

New Eden Banter #1 - Top Ten Reasons EVE Online is Still a Thing in 2026
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Typhoons at the Ansiblex Time to jump through and get where we’re going

Typhoons at the Ansiblex
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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Nine and Resident Evil Requiem We are not only done with week nine of the season, but we’re also into a new month, with a new slate of titles set to release. But we’re still looking back into February, into last week…

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I start digging into my memories and begin wandering off and forgetting what we were talking about... also a sign of someone my age. The belt onion is real.

And in the "technically" category, LBJ was president when I was born... the day the marines landed at Da Nang and US ground forces were fully committed to the war. I am a very early edition of gen x

For Reagan I was trying to decide if bombing Libya and playing games with the "line of death" counted. Or the marines who died in Lebanon. And how do you even classify Iran/Contra?

But the economy did get better. My parents bought a house in 79 at a credit card interest rate.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Indeed, it is always an error to assume that bad things are somehow mutually exclusive.

February 2026 in Review The Site What a strange month here on the blog.  Not strange due to anything I wrote, most of which was the standard fare the few regulars have come to expect, where even my most spicy take is pret…

February 2026 in Review
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Counter-point: This would require me to believe that Trump doesn't think everything is about him, and I am not sure I can get there today...